HMS Duncan (F80)

	HMS Duncan, July 1968 (IWM)
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Duncan
Namesake	Adam Duncan
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Laid down	17 December 1953
Launched	30 May 1957
Acquired	October 1958
Commissioned	21 October 1958
Decommissioned	1984
Identification	Pennant number: F80
Motto	Secundis dubusque rectus; ("Upright in prosperity and peril");
Fate	Broken up February 1985
Badge	On a Field Red, a hunting horn Silver; ;
General characteristics
Class and type	Blackwood-class frigate
Displacement	1,456 tons (1,479 tonnes) full load
Length	310 ft (94 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion	Y-100 plant; 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers; steam turbines on single shaft; 15,000 shp (11 MW);
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h)
Range	5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	112
Sensors and ; processing systems	Radar Type 974 navigation; Sonar Type 174 search; Sonar Type 162 target classification; Sonar Type 170 targeting;
Armament	3 × 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7 (quarterdeck mount later removed); 2 × Limbo Mark 10 anti-submarine mortars;

HMS Duncan, launched in 1957, was the fifth RN ship named after Admiral Adam Duncan. She was a Blackwood-class frigate of the Royal Navy that served in the Cod Wars.

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